CAPTAIN SCOTT'S DIARY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 November 1913, Page 5

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S DIARY.

PATHETIC LETTERS. (Received' Last Night, 7.50 o'clock.) LONDON, November 5. . Captain Scott's diary lias been published. In writing to his mother, while the end was approaching, he said: "The Great God has called me; but take comfort. I die in pence with the world and myself. I am not afraid." In a. pathetic letter to his wife regarding his -son Peter, lie says: "Make him a strenuous man.'' An, entry on March 11th narrates a dis- , cussion regarding Captain Oates, 'arid. concludes: • ; '■ "One satisfactory result. I practically ordered Dr AVilson to hand over the means of ending our trou-

bles, so that any one of us might know who would do so. Dr Wilson liadi no choice between doing or our ransacking his medicine case. Wo have thirty opium tabloids apiece, and Dr Wil-soii a tube of morphine." So much for the tragical side < f the storv. In a Inter writing to >is J. M. Bailie, the novelist,, Captain Scott adds:

"We did intend to perish ourselves when things proved like this; but have decided to die naturally in the track."Seeing that the end was inevitable, Captain Scott wrote letters oi comfort to the wives r.f members of the party, and also friends, including K'lgarj Speyer, William Macartney, Lewis; Beaumont", and Reginald Smith'. \ ; Writing to his wife, he -said: "Make the boy interested iii natural history u you can. It tter than games. They-encourage rt in some schools. I know you wist keep him in the open air. Above all, ho must guard, and you guard him, against indolence. 1 had to force myself into boina strenuous. I always had an inr-iin-ation to bo idle." The letter concludes: -•What lots and lots J could I you of the journey. How ''< iictter it has been than in too great comfort at ho;r:c. What tales you would have for 'he hov. Hut what a price to Tell Sir Clement Markliam ISnr,*ci' regretted him putting me in <••.*<*- mund of the Discovery."